Buried Astrolabe

Buried Astrolabe

"Buried Asrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition" by Craig Stewart Walker was published in 2001 by McGill-Queen's University Press.

The book is mainly devoted to extended studies of six Canadian playwrights: James Reaney, Michael Cook, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, George F. Walker, and Judith Thompson.

The title alludes to a particular astrolabe — an instrument used to navigate by the stars — allegedly lost by the explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1613, and is used figuratively to describe how Canadian writers continued to find their imaginative bearings in the context of European traditions long after their country had become independent.

ee also

*List of Canadian playwrights


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